Sony's February 20 "PlayStation Meeting" event in New York will see the PlayStation 4 being officially unveiled, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.

Last night, Sony released a 45-second video inviting gamers to "see the future" on February 20, with invitations to the "PlayStation Meeting" event being sent out shortly afterwards.

While Sony has not made the details of its event public, many speculated that this would be the unveiling of the PS4. The Wall Street Journal has now directly said Sony will announcing their new console at the event, with a report saying "people familiar with the matter have said the new device will make its debut there."

Social features and the user experience will be two of the key focuses of the new console over raw hardware power, according to the report. "Sony is planning to incorporate more social gaming aspects into the new machine," said the WSJ. "Also, while hardware improvements were a key focus of past console upgrades, Sony is more focused this time on the changes in how users interact with the machine."

The WSJ also states that Sony will debut the PS4 before Microsoft unveils its own next-generation Xbox, although both machines will launch later in 2013.

I've had an Xbox since they first released and have always had Xbox Live up till about last year. (Minus the 3 month I bought to play Halo 4 online)

All in all the actual concept of playing online is EXACTLY the same. Whether is fifa,call of duty, or any other game with MP.

It's all about the little things, even with that it's only things like party chat etc.Maybe of a silver membership provided online gaming and gold just other things like for example playstation plus.

I guarantee you over 80 percent of people would revert to silver. Because all they want to do is just play online. Not pay for a subscription service to be able to use their already existing subscription service ( Netflix)

One thing I noticed is that despite paying, you still get a million ads on the dashboard...

Also you missed out on the free custom Xbox for 10 year subscribers

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